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  2. Gap year - Wikipedia

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    A gap year is described as “a semester or year of experiential learning, typically taken after high school, and prior to career or post-secondary education, in order to deepen one’s practical, professional, and personal awareness.” [6] During this time, students engage in various educational, work-related, and developmental activities [7] such as internships, work experience, travel ...

  3. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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    Also "gap" or "power alley", the space between the leftfielder and the centerfielder, or the rightfielder and centerfielder. If a batter hits the ball "up the alley" with enough force, he has a stronger chance of advancing beyond first base and being credited with an extra-base hit.

  4. List of age-related terms with negative connotations - Wikipedia

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    Harold and Maude: A couple consisting of two partners between whom there is a large age gap; slang term originates from the 1971 comedy feature film Harold and Maude. [21] Has-been: [7] An older person out-of-touch with modern trends, or outmoded and no longer wanted/needed by their place of employment or society. It is used also towards a ...

  5. OpenThesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap

  6. Mountain pass - Wikipedia

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    Idealised mountain pass represented as the green line; the saddle point is in red.. Mountain passes make use of a gap, saddle, col or notch.A topographic saddle is analogous to the mathematical concept of a saddle surface, with a saddle point marking the minimum high point between two valleys and the lowest point along a ridge.

  7. Gap - Wikipedia

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    Gap (chart pattern), areas where no trading occurs in the stock market; Gap (Mandaeism) or Gaf, a demon of the Mandaean underworld; GAP insurance, a type of vehicle insurance; Gap Mangione, or Gaspare Charles "Gap" Mangione, jazz pianist and bandleader; Gap Messenger, an Iranian messaging app; Gap year, a prolonged period between life stages

  8. Plot hole - Wikipedia

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    Types of plot hole include: Factual errors Historical anachronisms, or incorrect statements about the world. [2]Impossible events Something that defies the laws of science, as established for the story's setting.

  9. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...